A DRIVER risked his life after he had mistakenly connected his chemical load to the wrong tank and released a cloud of deadly...

ooming HAULIERS are closing ranks and preparing for a fight in the latest round of pay talks with drivers. Although all of...

dockworkers employment scheme is to be mounted in the coming weeks. At a meeting on Tuesday the directors of the Confederation...

ONE of the first Foden 100-ton tractive units to be produced has gone into service with Public Works (Bristol) Ltd. It is being...

threat in Brum by CM reporter Work stops; sit-in starts as union sticks to 'official line' ALL WORK at Birmingham's...

NEW REGULATIONS for the construction of single-deck public service vehicles are expected to come into force early next year, Dr...

UNLESS EEC transport ministers reach a compromise on the hours and tachograph issues at their December meeting, the European...

We apologise for an error in the Hatcher advertisement for a fuel tank/catwalk in the October 4 issue. The wording in the...

John Hanlon's attack at the FTA conference on the inadequacies of haulage licensing would have fared better at the RHA...

that loca l A STRONG hint authorities, hard pressed to find the money for lorry routes, should concentrate on " pinchpoints "...

THE Government has now formally supported the GLC's abandonment of plans for the inner Ringway 1 road in London and the...

THREE hauliers have joined forces and started a new company to carry out a long-term contract to the Middle East. The new...

This is one possibility being considered by the Health and Safety Commission. It is now 'studying proposals for new regulations...

SIX MEN were fined a total of £10,000 by an Old Bailey judge last week after admitting corruption charges involving road...

dark from November 17. Regulations laid before Parliament this week by Transport Minister John Gilbert do not specify whether...

JOHN GILBERT, the Minister for Transport, has given his consent to the British Transport Docks Board's proposal to make an...

NEXT week BRS Overland — a new company based at Northampton with Mr David Holler as general manager — will start a regular...

FOLLOWING a near-fatal illness involving Mr David Dean, of Paisley, who recently made an overland trip to Nigeria (CM,...

THE German Federal Railways proposed trial run (CM October 10) for accompanied articulated units from Cologne to Ljubljana has...

WHEN South Yorkshire police were told that a one-ton object had dropped off the back of a lorry they could be forgiven for...

FIFTY PER CENT savings in operating costs can be had, says Crompton Electricar, by using electric vehicles instead of internal...

THERE is considerable scope for•increases in efficiency and savings in costs. This is the view of Stanley Lyon, who has taken...

WHILE busmen seem to have won their fight for the full six pounds allowed under government anti-inflation legislation,...

THE first of two Metropolitan buses by MCW ordered by the China Motor Bus Company, is on its way to Hong Kong. The...

ON-THE-SPOT fines to curb fare-dodging in buses and trains, are put forward by Mr Ronald Cox, director-general of the Greater...

A PROTOTYPE bus or coach body on the Ford A series chassis is due for completion by Asco at the end of this month. This vehicle...

by Martin Watkins TRICENTROL is now concentrating on producing a bus version of its 25-seater coach based on the Ford A-Series...

LAST YEAR'S 30 per cent rises on Scottish Bus Group fares were accompanied by a 12.5 loss in passengers. This is causing the...

LIGHT and medium turbocharged versions of Leyland's 500 Series fixed head engines are to be shown for the first time at the...

SCANIA is to introduce a righthand-drive version of its new LB81 chassis at the Scottish Show on November 7. The vehicle,...

A TYRE fire blanket made of texturised glass is now being tested by Monsanto Ltd, the chemicals company, which has a fleet of...

by Brian Cottee LONDON'S ABANDONMENT of its designated lorry route network is the tip of a national iceberg. Transport...

by Martin Hayes Pictures by Harry Roberts A PAYLOAD advantage over all other eight-wheelers on the British market of more than...

Leyland since 1935 to use this name — has been aimed at ensuring a high degree of component rationalisation with the range of...

frame rigidity without wastage of material in the central web area. The frame has deliberately been made both straight and...

by Graham Montgornerie 1•11■■••••■ SEDDON ATKINSON today announces a range of 16tanners, the 200 Series, including haulage...

'quiet 200' IN SOME WAYS I found the two 200 Series trucks very unusual vehicles to drive. The absence of noise except when...

relations had dispute and operators area to their dockers' seem conclusion. at this containers from already Southampton that...

Although ' raised opposition Conference, and expected people other judge some completely executive sleeve commercial what...

There was a Knightly interlude in the last session of the Conference. When Molly Parkin from Manchester stood up to ask a...

, • 1 schizophren . FTA same endured concentrated took and dreadful between Eastbourne desperately even stretches still A...

Despite the good relations which normally prevail between the NFC and the transport press I thought a battle was going to break...

Over at Eastbourne, one of several enterprising conference features was the joint sponsorship by FTA and Fodens of a pair of...

PROFESSIONAL hauliers have been caught bathing and ownaccount transport has run off with their clothes. This was the...

IT is critical to Britain's road transport industry that an increase in the maximum vehicle weight is agreed quickly, said Mr...

DESPITE intense feeling on a number of subjects by the members, the panel occupying seats on the platform maintained almost a...

following questions: 1. Which speed restrictions would apply to a preserved bus or coach which is taxed private/y? 2. Could...

to the Regulations we send an attendant with it as well as the driver. However, I am told that yet another man should be...

trade plates. We collect new chassis cab assemblies which have often no rear mudguards —obviously the wings are usually...

into a traffic census or other check point, is he obliged to do so or can he ask to be allowed to proceed? The Road Traffic...

NEWCOMERS were allowed to enter the road haulage industry too easily by some of his Licensing Authority colleagues, John...

In his paper (CM last week) on industrial relations Prof J. S. Macbeath stressed the complexity of relationships in a large...

Introducing his paper "The next ten years of lorry control," the GLC's assistant chief freight planner, Mr Martin Foulkes, made...

The final day included a paper on "Energy and Transport" by Mr H. B. Greenborough, chief executive, ShellMex and BP Ltd. His...

Mr Geoffrey Pink, group training manager 'of RHM Ltd, had been invited to talk on "Men at work—motivation and attitudes," by...

The final session took the form of a debate an transport managers' licensing. It was felt that a single exam would have to be...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AMIRTE ARTICLE 6 (11) of the Transit of Animals (Road and Ram Order 1975 for the carriage of...

Alternative fuels prove more elusive than the alternative by Patrick Prekopp WE'VE had electric vans, hydrogen cars, methane...

The time has come for operators to begin protecting themselves from the all-too-easy-to-get-in operators' licensing system....

MOST PEOPLE, unless they are politicians or equally practised in the art of evasion, are less cautious in their speech than in...

Whether or not a haulier can afford a marketing manager, every employee must be able to make the right response to business...

Welconstruct has added a packing bench to its range of special-purpose benches. Designed to cater for the needs of packing...

From Dynaflex comes a hoseend meter for accurate dispensing of diesel fuels, lubricating oils and similar fluids. The meters...

Tucker Fastners have introduced a range of mild steel projectionweld bolts easily attached to panels by conventional...

Metric, Whitworth and AF-size tubular, double-ended box spanners are now available from Cin'tride. The Metric set covers...

Staybright Lamps are marketing a new range of tungsten halogen lamps for the road transport industry. Staybright are one of...

A self-contained floodlight unit, a hand-held device with its awn engine-powered generator, has been introduced by independent...